Steven Hirsch wrote:
Michael J. Mahon wrote:Actually, one of the possibilities of a 64-bit address space is that libraries (DLLs) can be statically linked to fixed addresses. The Apollo Domain OS took this approach in the early 1990s allowing some very advanced system concepts to be implemented rather simply.Isn't that the scheme behind the IBM iSeries (nee AS/400)? Or do they just do that with files?
That may be. I lost "currency" with IBM systems after the 1980s. ;-( They certainly had a very large virtual address space, and this would make great sense. -michael NadaNet and AppleCrate II for Apple II parallel computing! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."